SourceAnywhere

SourceAnywhere Features & Benefits

• High performance back-end - With a carefully designed and engineered back-end, SourceAnywhere can operate on repositories with large number of files smoothly
• Includes fast remote access for geographically distributed teams
• All major Visual SourceSafe features are supported - SourceAnywhere is designed to be a replacement for Visual SourceSafe. All major features of Visual SourceSafe are supported
• Familiar GUI - The GUI of SourceAnywhere is so similar to Visual SourceSafe/VSS that you can begin using SourceAnywhere Standalone in minutes
• Painless data migration from Visual SourceSafe/VSS - A SourceAnywhere VSS import tool is provided to migrate data from VSS easily
• Improved security - SourceAnywhere is a client/server application, thus there is no need to grant read/write permission of your whole DB through the file system anymore. 128-bit cryptography is used to protect the data
• Enhanced features of Visual SourceSafe/VSS - SourceAnywhere has many enhancements of VSS operations, such as:
  • Strong label management: you can add or delete items from a label, or change the version of an item in a label
  • Strong branch management: you can branch any files or projects from any version to a new location, or branch from a label
  • Strong versioning support: you can visually view the whole project tree and any items in the tree from any version or a label
• Wide IDE integration - SourceAnywhere supports all MSSCCI compatible IDE integrations, such as Microsoft Visual Studio, .NET and IBM Rational
• Enhanced robustness and scalability - Built on Microsoft SQL Server 2000, SourceAnywhere enables you to scale up and scale out to meet the needs of even the largest repository
• Atomic commit - If an operation on the repository is interrupted in the middle, your data will not be left in an inconsistent state.
• Strong change set support - A group of related operations can be treated as one change set and the version number of all the parent items increases by 1
• Reduced repository storage – Using Delta Storage technology, SourceAnywhere saves only the difference of each version, so that the storage of repository is reduced significantly. Delta Storage works on both binary and text files